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    Book Review – Clean by Juno Dawson

    I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter… it’s liquid gold. When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom. She’s wrong. Rock bottom is when she’s forced into an exclusive rehab facility. From there, the only way is up for Lexi and her fellow inmates, including the mysterious Brady. As she faces her demons, Lexi realises love is the most powerful drug of all… It’s a dirty business getting clean… *** 3.5/5 Stars I received this book from the publishers via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. Okay, to start, a couple of warnings. This is a book about a stint in…

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    Book Review – The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

    Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods near her isolated village by her family’s enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once her people, the Augurs, controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good. In a desperate bid to save her family, Wren takes a dangerous undercover assignment—as an intern to an influential Judge named Cassa Harkness. Cassa has spent her life researching a transformative spell, which could bring the war between the factions to its absolute end. Caught in a web of deceit, Wren must decide whether or not to gamble…

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    Book Review – The Rogue Queen by Emily R King

    Despite the odds, Kalinda has survived it all: Marriage to a tyrant. Tournaments to the death. The forbidden power to rule fire. The icy touch of a demon. That same demon now disguises itself as Rajah Tarek, Kalinda’s late husband and a man who has never stopped haunting her. Upon taking control of the palace and the army, the demon brands Kalinda and her companions as traitors to the empire. They flee across the sea, seeking haven in the Southern Isles. In Lestari, Kalinda’s powers are not condemned, as they are in her land. Now free to use them to protect those she loves, Kalinda soon realizes that the demon…

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    Book Review – I am Thunder by Muhammed Khan

    Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem, who dreams of being a writer, struggles with controlling parents who only care about her studying to be a doctor. Forced to move to a new school in South London after her best friend is shamed in a scandal, Muzna realizes that the bullies will follow her wherever she goes. But deciding to stand and face them instead of fighting her instinct to disappear is harder than it looks when there’s prejudice everywhere you turn. Until the gorgeous and confident Arif shows an interest in her, encouraging Muzna to explore her freedom. But Arif is hiding his own secrets and, along with his brother Jameel, he begins…

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    Book Review – Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard

    When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild – what am I? Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that the boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only Eden knows Bonnie’s location, and that’s the way it has to stay. There’s…

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    Anticipated 2018 releases

    I hope everyone had a lovely New Years 🙂 I thought I’d try and put together a post about my most anticipated 2018 new releases.  There are so many! I’m certain I have forgotten some 😉  I haven’t included any that I already have an ARC of (eg Everless) because I figure I can’t anticipate something I can read anytime (or have already read)! The dates listed are all current expected publication acccording to goodreads – this is likely to be US dates (sad!) but I did catch at least one (first time I’ve been thankful for regional cover changes haha) and change it. New/one-off books Children of Blood and…